Dog-Man Isomorphism: Gaze Companion Species with Empathy in Disgrace
Abstract
Based on the self-built corpus, Disgrace is compared with Coetzee’s other 11 novels with AntConc to generate keyword list and the data reveals that "dogs", as an important keyword, makes a great contribution to theme construction of Disgrace and has a relationship of co-occurrence and isomorphism with man. Dogs are the objects of Lurie’ gaze, and with anti-gaze, he achieves empathy between man and dogs, clarifies the identity of dogs as companion species of human beings, showing the isomorphism between them. Lurie’s becoming dog-man, which is, in essence, a kind of deterritorialization, breaking through the species boundary between humans and animals and demonstrates the animal rights.References
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[4] About the author: Yongjin Wu(2000.07- ), male, born in Yongzhou, Hunan Province. He is an undergraduate at Hunan Normal University. His research interest is British and American literature.
[5] This paper is funded by Hunan Normal University undergraduates innovative experiment project and entrepreneurship program(2020121).
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